Mr. Frank H. Taylor on Culicidae from Papua. 197 



Legs : coxae and trochanters pale browTi clothed with white 

 scales ; femora black scaled above, mottled with brown and white 

 scales beneath, the latter predominating ; knee joint creamy ; tibiae 

 black scaled with a narrow apical creamy white band; tarsi black 

 scaled first and second of fore legs basally banded white with a 

 trace of banding on the third, first three of mid and hind legs basally 

 banded white ; ungues equal and simple. 



Wings densely covered with blackish scales ; costa black ; first 

 fork-cell longer and narrower than the second, the base of the latter 

 slightly nearer the base of the wing than that of the former ; stem 

 of first fork-cell about two-thirds the length of its cell, that of second 

 fork-cell a little more than half the length of its cell ; mid cross-vein 

 longer than the posterior cross-vein, the latter sloping forwards and 

 about twice its length distant from the mid cross; fringe dusky. 

 Halteres with pale stem and dusky knob. 



Length 4*5 mm. 



cJ. Head dark brown with white narrow curved and brown 

 upright forked scales and flat white ones on the sides ; eyes black, 

 fringe dark brown; antennae pale, plumes black <Vith the nodes 

 dark brown, basal lobes brown, penultimate and apical segments 

 brown, very long about half the length of the whole; palpi longer 

 than the proboscis densely covered with black hairs from the apical 

 third of first joint, black scaled, first joint with a band of creamy 

 white scales at the base of the apical third, second and apical joints 

 basally banded creamy white the last joint apically banded also ; 

 proboscis black scaled with a narrow white scaled band a little in 

 front of the middle. Abdomen with banding less distinct than in the 

 ?, scales blacker; venter densely covered with pale brown hairs; 

 wings similar to $ but less densely scaled ; first fork-cell longer and 

 narrower than the second, stem of the former nearly as long as the 

 cell, that of the latter about two-thirds the length of its cell ; pos- 

 terior cross-vein longer than the mid and twice its own length distant 

 from it. Ungues of fore and mid legs very unequal, uniserrate, 

 hind equal and simple. 



Length 4 mm. 



Habitat. Papua, Milne Bay (Dr. Breinl). 



Culexfatigans, Wiedemann. 



Auss. Zweiflug. Ins., 10 (1828) ; Theobald, Mon. Culicid., 

 II, p. 151 (1901); V, p. 383 (1910). 



Additional Locality. Papua, Port Moresby {Dr. Breinl). 

 Observations. The collection contained a single perfect 



